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The Crow {Comis fr/ig-ivorus) as a Fisherman. — I ;im courteously 

 permitted by Mr. L. I. Flower of Clifton, N. B.. to publish the followinj^ 

 note of an interesting incident which came under bis observation. 



•' A few years since, while crossing the Washademock Lake, I noticed a 

 Crow flying close to the surface at a spot where the water is very shoal. 

 Suddenly, when but a short distance from my boat, tbe Crow thrust his 

 claw down into the water and drew to the surface what I afterward discov- 

 ered was a fish of about half a pound weight, and then seizing it with his 

 bill, by aid of 'tooth and nail' succeeded in drawing it out of the water 

 and carrying it to an adjacent i-ock, the fish all the while struggling hard 

 to get free." — Montague CIIAMBERI.AI^■. Sf. John. N. B. 



- Odd Nesting-site of a Great-crested Flycatcher. — In 1S75, in either the 

 latter part of May or earh- in June, at Chesnut Hill, a suburb of Philadel- 

 phia, but about eight miles northwest of the city proper, a pair of Great- 

 crested Flycatchers (^Myiarchus crinitus) made three attempts to build a 

 nest in the gutter pipe of an inhabited house. The house was of stone, 

 with a 'French' roof covered with slate. The pipe was of tin and opened 

 out of the gutter about six feet from a window of a bo\''s room. It was 

 bent at the top at an angle of about 30° from the perpendicular, and at 

 this bend the birds endeavored to lodge their nest. Each time the ma- 

 terials were washed down by rain, and the day at\er the third flood the 

 birds abandoned the locality. There was not a tree on the place over ten 

 years old, and I have never, before or since, known a Great-crested Fly- 

 catcher to establish itself withiia a mile of the house in question. The 

 house was partly covered with vines, but there were none above or within 

 five feet of the junction of gutter and pipe. — Frank R. Welsh. PJiila- 

 {1 el phi a. Pa. 



Duck Hawks breeding in the Helderberg Mountains. New York. — Last 

 summer I observed a pair of Duck Hawks {Falco peregrinus ncevius) 

 several times in the neighborhood of a high clifl^" in the Helderberg jSIoun- 

 tains, about thirty miles from Albany. Thinking it probable from their 

 actions that they had bred there, I visited the locality last April and found 

 thatthey had been there some time already. Diligent search was at once 

 commenced for the nest; during which the old birds were frequently seen, 

 and evinced the highest degree of excitabilil\'. On the nth of April 

 the eyrie was discovered; the eggs, four in number, were placed upon 

 the bare surface of a ledge in an extremely wild situation ; there was no 

 appearance of a nest, but the eggs w^ere surrounded merely by a few bones 

 and feathers. The birds showed the greatest anger, flying, shrieking, in 

 circles overhead. They were not shot and probably bred elsewhere upon 

 the mountain later on, although their second nest was not discovei'ed. 

 — G. A. LiNTXER. Albany. X. Y. 



Hybrid between Pedicecetes phasianellus and Cupidonia cupido. — On 

 the 1st of February last, or about that date, a curious bird was obtained at 

 a poulterer's shop at Brighton (in England) which had been sent over 



